"Blast you vile network! I shall use my configuration ray and lobotomize you into reruns!"
Posted on 03/22/2008 3:20:29 PM PDT by Publius
National upheaval caused by a nuclear assault? Easy. Nielsen ratings? Hard. Despite efforts from zealous fans to keep Jericho alive — including the now-famous peanut incident — Tuesday's episode will be its last.
"The March 25 episode... will be the series finale," CBS entertainment boss Nina Tassler says in a statement. "Without question, there are passionate viewers watching this program; we simply wish there were more. We thank an engaged and spirited fan base for keeping the show alive this long, and an outstanding team of producers, cast and crew that went through creative hoops to deliver a compelling, high-quality second season.... We're proud of everyone's efforts."
Two "finales" were filmed for Tuesday: one that left viewers with a cliff-hanger (in the event of a Season 3), and one that resolves things a bit more. The latter edit, now headed to your screens, will leave fans "not too happy," Skeet Ulrich confirmed in this Mitovich Mega Minute Q&A (at the 3:00 mark):
Those who helped save Jericho the first time around shouldn't feel bad: Although the series faced worse ratings this year, the fans' efforts to keep it alive are seen as one of the biggest outpourings of support for a show, ever.
Nuked it, eh?
Figures. One of the few shows I was watching.
Me too. I also enjoy the star trek enterprise that comes on Mondays at 7pm. They are 3 shows back to back.
The Captain is Captain Archer and the Vulcan science officer is hot hot hot.
I have seen all the shows twice now but I still watch them.
Other then that my tv fare is either the Military, History, Nation Geographic, or Biography channels.
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Ping. It’s over.
I enjoyed the show. I can count on one hand the number of shows I can say that about.
Thank goodness the baseball season starts next week because I am sick of trying to find something worth watching on the six million channels I have.
"Blast you vile network! I shall use my configuration ray and lobotomize you into reruns!"
Good. That can stop with the pop up promos for it while I’m taking in Dexter.
It was the only show I've been watching on regular television.
Combine good writing and one has to wonder where the real fans are.(what no motorcycles and protesters at the studio?)
They had to kill it Publius - it didn’t pander to MMGW (Man Made Global Warming) or political correctness enough. Fortunately we still have the gameshow with the lie detector
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Dexter never should have been moved from Showtime. Mark my words, CBS will ruin it when they start producing episodes just for CBS.
rumor on another thread is that Sc-fi channel might pick it up for season 3. only show i watch tuesdays on broadcast tv, glad sci-fi is runing season 1 on fridays.
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Bummer! CBS wouldn’t know good TV if it bit them in the behind. If Jericho goes to cable, we’ll have to finally sign up for cable TV so we can watch it.
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So are we going to send nuts to their headquarters once again? I'm willing to pitch in.
They seemed to have a pretty good idea what good TV is (assuming you list Jericho as good TV) but nobody watched. They’re job is to find viewers, not put on good TV, and inspite of all the nuts Jericho never really found viewers.
Jericho had pretty decent viewing online and DVR, but I think is more suited for cable than the old network tv.. To be quite honest I think we are seeing the end of traditional network tv.
Online and DVR doesn’t generate the revenue of live broadcast, more commercials and more assurance that the viewers are actually watching the commercials. Not seeing the end of traditional network TV, not even close. Just look at the numbers for show like Idol and Dancing with the Stars, there’s plenty of traditional network TV viewers out there.
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